Overview
About Business Unit:
The Product team forms the crux of our powerful platforms and helps connect millions of customers worldwide with the brands that matter most to them. This team of innovative problem solvers develops and builds products that position Epsilon as a differentiator, encouraging an open and balanced marketplace built on respect for individuals, where every brand interaction holds value. Our full-cycle product engineering and data teams chart the future and set new benchmarks for our products, by using industry standard methodologies and sophisticated capabilities in data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Driven by a passion for delivering smart end-to-end solutions, this team plays a key role in Epsilon's success story.
A bit about who we are looking for:
At Epsilon, we run on our people's ideas. It's how we solve problems and exceed expectations. Our team is now growing, and we are on the lookout for skilled individuals who always set a higher standard by constantly challenging themselves and are experts in building customized solutions in the digital marketing space.
So, are you someone who wants to work with pioneering technology and enable marketers to create data-driven, omnichannel consumer experiences through data platforms? Then you could be exactly who we are looking for.
Apply today and be part of a creative, innovative, and talented team that's not afraid to push boundaries or take risks.
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Responsibilities
What you'll do:
We seek Software Engineers with experience building and scaling services in on-premises and cloud environments.
As a Lead Engineer in the Epsilon Attribution/Forecasting Product Development team, you will play a key role in implementing and optimizing advanced data processing solutions using Scala, Spark, and Hadoop. You will collaborate with multi-functional teams to deploy scalable big data solutions on our on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Your responsibilities will include building, scheduling, and maintaining complex workflows, as well as performing data integration and transformation tasks. You will troubleshoot issues, document processes, and communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Additionally, you will focus on continuously enhancing our attribution and forecasting engines, ensuring they effectively meet evolving business needs.
Strong written and verbal communication skills (in English) are required to facilitate work across multiple countries and time zones. Good understanding of Agile Methodologies - SCRUM.
Qualifications
What you'll need:
- Over 8 years of strong experience in Scala programming and extensive use of Apache Spark for developing and maintaining scalable big data solutions on both on-premises and cloud environments, particularly AWS and GCP.
- Proficient in performance tuning of Spark jobs, optimizing resource usage, shuffling, partitioning, and caching for maximum efficiency.
- Skilled in implementing scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines with comprehensive monitoring and alerting.
- Hands-on experience with Python for developing infrastructure modules.
- Deep understanding of the Hadoop ecosystem, including HDFS, YARN, and MapReduce.
- Proficient in writing efficient SQL queries for handling large volumes of data in various database systems.
- Experienced in building, scheduling, and maintaining DAG workflows.
- Familiar with data warehousing concepts and technologies.
- Capable of taking end-to-end ownership in defining, developing, and documenting software objectives and requirements in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Experienced with GIT or equivalent source control systems.
- Proficient in developing and implementing unit test cases to ensure code quality and reliability and experienced in utilizing integration testing frameworks to validate system interactions.
- Effective collaborator with stakeholders and teams to understand requirements and develop solutions.
- Ability to work within tight deadlines, prioritize tasks effectively, and perform under pressure.
- Experience in mentoring junior staff.
Advantageous to have experience on below:
- Hands-on with Databricks for unified data analytics, including Databricks Notebooks, Delta Lake, and Catalogues.
- Proficiency in using the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack for real-time search, log analysis, and visualization.
- Strong background in analytics, including the ability to derive actionable insights from large datasets and support data-driven decision-making.
- Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI, or Grafana.
- Familiarity with Docker for containerization and Kubernetes for orchestration.
Additional Information
Epsilon is a global data, technology and services company that powers the marketing and advertising ecosystem. For decades, we've provided marketers from the world's leading brands the data, technology and services they need to engage consumers with 1 View, 1 Vision and 1 Voice. 1 View of their universe of potential buyers. 1 Vision for engaging each individual. And 1 Voice to harmonize engagement across paid, owned and earned channels.
Epsilon's comprehensive portfolio of capabilities across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions bridge the divide between marketing and advertising technology. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day using advanced AI and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon has been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Epsilon is a global company with more than 9,000 employees around the world.
Our pillars aren't just words. They're how we show up every day.
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People centricity: We focus on employee well-being in an environment where colleagues truly care about each other.
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Collaboration: We work together, support one another, and collectively achieve goals.
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Growth: There are endless opportunities for growth through learning, development and career advancement.
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Innovation: We drive progress through cutting-edge solutions and forward-thinking approaches.
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Flexibility: We've created a balance between work and personal life, and we encourage adaptability to solve problems creatively.
Our values guide us to create value for our clients, our people and consumers.
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Act with integrity
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Work together to win together
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Innovate with purpose
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Respect all voices
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Empower with accountability
These pillars and values are our foundation-shaping our culture, guiding our decisions, and uniting us in common purpose.
Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Epsilon is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunities by using reasonable efforts to attract, recruit, engage and retain qualified individuals of all ethnicities and backgrounds, including, but not limited to, women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities and any other underrepresented groups, traits or characteristics.
